Speech Quotes · Page 30

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

— Mary Baker Eddy

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

— Margaret Halsey

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech

— Loretta Swit

I spent three years at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, which I enjoyed very much.

— Christopher Timothy

No officer, my speech isn't slurred. I'm just talking in cursive.

— Anonymous

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.

— H. L. Mencken

Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.

— Ruth Beebe Hill

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly…

— Lewis Carroll

I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler…

— Emily Dickinson

You have to be a free speech absolutist if you want to be an 8chan admin because if you're anything else, you're…

— Fredrick Brennan

No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper,…

— William O. Douglas

Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is…

— Tony Hendra

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taught me, a…

— Mos Def

Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're…

— Pico Iyer

“When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom…

— Suzy Kassem

I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp…

— Barack Obama

“A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to…

— N.D. Wilson

Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private…

— Jacques Barzun

I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates…

— Milos Forman

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to…

— Grover Norquist

Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has…

— Edward Said

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion…

— George Edward Woodberry

Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If…

— Neville Goddard

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in…

— Bebe Neuwirth

The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

— Rush Limbaugh

Contrary to popular belief, a lot of us who have speech impediments are really, really intelligent.

— Curtis Blaydes

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

— John Yoo

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

— Mo Ibrahim

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

— Terry Pratchett

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

The most important part of any speech is the people that are listening to it respond to it and appreciate it.

— Jerome Bettis

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

— Alan Lightman

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

— Teresa Heinz

How odd that the proponents of free expression think 'free' only applies to them.

— Greg Gutfeld

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

— Robert Spencer

You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things.

— Lena Dunham

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

— John Millington Synge

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

— Joseph Campbell